Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ... including on the dwarf planet Ceres and on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, says Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary scientist at NASA ...